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007186New York: Bamfoth & Co. No Date circa 1910-1920. 4" x 4" black and white photograph on thin card stock of a blackface family of five sitting on the stoop of their log cabin with view of river valley in background the father playing a banjo. Verso has lyrics and music to Stepen A. Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home". Very Good card evenly browned. . Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4" x 4". Bamfoth & Co. Paperback books
008275No Place: Stinson Records No Author. No Place Los Angeles no date circa late 1950s- early 1960s. Listings for Stinson SLP #1-85 and #1000-1003. Typed one side with title musician Stinson SLP# a brief summary of the recording list of songs size and number of LPs List and Net prices. Lacking pages for #s 67 71 72 75-77 80-82. Unpaginated 80 pp. Bound in black stiff paper brad binder title label front cover Very Good Plus small corner creases top corners rear cover and final 6 pages. No listing found at Worldcat. Stinson Records was an important early publisher of folk music and blues recording such artists as Woody Guthrie Pete Seeger Leadbelly Josh White and Sonny Terry. . Brads. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stinson Records Paperback books
1982008839Middletown CT: Davison Art Center / Long Gallery / Wesleyan University 1982. RARE broadside for this exhibition no copies found at WorldCat under this title. This exhibition was based on Mark Slobin's 1982 book "Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants" which was published by University of Illinois Press. Near Fine 2 horizontal fold creases. The broadside features the illustrated cover fot "The Titanic Disaster" published in 1912. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 16 3/4"h x 10"w. Davison Art Center / Long Gallery / Wesleyan University Paperback books
1955008601Londini: The Labour Party 1955. SCARCE. 58 pages in colorful stapled wrappers contains words and music to 56 songs includes one song in Esperanto one in French and two with alternative Welsh and English words. Near Fine 2 pages loose from staples. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Labour Party Paperback books
1949001526Nashville TN: Acuff-Rose Publications 1949. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the front wrapper "My Best To You" Anita Carter and "Luck & Stuff" June Carter. June Carter of course later became the wife of Johny Cash and June and the Carter Family are Country Music legends. Signed material by members of the Carter Family from this era are exceedingly scarce.- as is this song book. 48 pages containing the music for 14 songs 17 photosincluding 4 portrait photos of the family and 4 biography pages. Bottom corner creases to the wrappers and pages and a 1" horizontal tear back wrapper and last 4 pages. This is a chance to own a truly unique piece of Country Music history. SIGNED. First Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Acuff-Rose Publications Paperback books
1930001619Philadelphia: Curtis Institute of Music 1930. About Fine the cream-colored wrappers are lightly soiled. Laid in is an announcement from the school discussing what areas of study still have vacancies for that school year. The catalogue details faculty plans of study facilities etc. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Curtis Institute of Music Paperback books
1958008061London: Collett's Holdings Ltd. 1958. A RARE complete run of this early and influential British review filled with substantial authoritative articles. Near Fine in 20th c. green decorative cloth boards a slight musty smell else Fine. A. L. Lloyd 1908-1982; English folk singer and collector of folk songs has been described as "the father confessor of the British Folk Revival".Gramophone May 1967. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collett's Holdings, Ltd. Hardcover books
1986240120Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Hardcover binding with very light edge wear to extremities. ; no markings in text. Very Good binding. Indiana University Press unknown books
191145908Sedalia MO: Perry & Sons 1911. Periodical. 4to pp. not numbered. Paper wraps. Includes several short articles advertisements and music for six pieces. Somewhat creased and chipped o/w VG. Perry & Sons unknown books
1948006647New York: Anthony Ray De Vita 1948. Very Good Plus wrappers lightly soiled. 64 pp. "A classified and alphabetical list of the World's Best and most Popular Standard Songs with their Original keys and Starting notes. Plus 'A Handy Fake List and Song Reminder of Top Tunes'." Musician's Handbook. 4th Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 4" x 10 3/4". Anthony Ray De Vita Paperback books
195426828New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1954. Fireside BCE. Hardcover. slight bump to upper rear corner minor dust-soiling to top of text block one-time owner's name and address screenwriter Mel Shavelson neatly printed on front pastedown; jacket typically browned at spine short tear at lower front foldover with short diagonal crease at lower right corner of front panel. two B&W photographs Based on Bissell's novel "7-1/2 Cents" about a labor dispute in a New England factory; basis for the 1957 film of the same name co-directed by Abbott and Stanley Donen. This edition lacks a printing statement but seems to be one of the earliest Fireside Theatre Book Club printings quite possibly the first thus of this title as the rear jacket panel contains testimonials from Gertrude Lawrence Katharine Cornell Noel Coward and others lauding the "proposed plan" for the Fireside Theatre as "an excellent idea." . Random House hardcover books
1958011577NY: Random House 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. Inscribed by legendary writer/director/ producer George Abbott to Jane and Bob Emerson who managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years on the ffe. Review slip laid-in. One of George Abbott's least successful musicals in a legendary career which included hits like "Damn Yankees" and "Pajama Game" although Thelma Ritter did get a featured actress in a musical Tony Award. Random House hardcover books
195826849New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1958. Fireside Theatre BCE. Hardcover. nice tight copy a touch of soiling and shelfwear to bottom edge slight deterioration to binding at top of spine; jacket shows typical browing/slight fading to spine otherwise clean and attractive. B&W photographs Musicalization of O'Neill's "Anna Christie" a classic example of an upbeat treatment of pretty downbeat material. The original Broadway production was energized by Bob Fosse's choreography; the second collaboration between him and his future wife Gwen Verdon following their big hit "Damn Yankees" it opened at New York's 46th Street Theatre and ran for a year 431 performances. . Random House hardcover books
1974132266Austin: Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press 1974. Hardcover. xiv 125p. preface appendix bibliographic notes musical transcriptions very good first edition in buckram cloth and unclipped dj. Memoir Series volume 60 Wm. Hugh Jansen general editor. Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press hardcover books
1943019981New York: Southern Music Company. Good. 1943. Sheet music. Sheet music is in good condition. Loose page is stapled in. Closed tears on spine and crinkling on wrapper edges. Pages toned. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp . Southern Music Company unknown books
195924205Bruxelles Belgium: Philips Minigroove 1959. A blues opera album; recorded "Gala Femmes d'Aujourd'hui le mardi 22 decembre 1959"; written by American composter- writer Harold Arlen 1905 - 1986 originally performed by Kostelanetz at Carnegie Hall in 1957 then taken "on the road" to Europe; with several performer signatures including: Lillian Hayman 1922 - 1994 African-American Tony Award-winning actress and singer; Norma Mae Donaldson 1928 - 1994 African-American actress and singer; Paul Harris 1917 -1985 African-American actor personnel manager and music publisher ".in the late 1950s looking for work he left the United States for Europe. He came to Paris with the cast of Free and Easy." Jet Nov 28 1968; and others signed: James Randolph F. Cowen James Randolph Charles "Smiles" Thompson Patti Boon Jacqueline Walcott; the biography "Hi-de-Hoe" the Life of Cab Calloway Shipton 2013 states that this show was not a success and ended stranding the performers in Europe after a short Paris run - Calloway had declined to be part of the production; cover texts in French; 10" Philips Minigroove record in 'shopping bag' handled illustrated cover-sleeve; no inner liner; some edge tips wear creasing and soiling to sleeve; Walcott signature faint all others very good and clear; disc not played by us to check for fidelity; in good condition. Signed By Performers. Record Album. Record Album . Good. Philips Minigroove paperback books
196525281New Orleans Louisiana: Nobility Recording Company 1965. A 12" record album LP Nobility 703; High fidelity mono. Signed by Cottrell Joseph Howard & Adams on the back cover in various inks. The band participants were: Louis Cottrell clarinet and vocals; Lester Santiago piano; Avery "Kid" Howard trumpet and vocals; Waldren "Frog" Joseph trombone and vocals; Placide Adams bass fiddle; Paul Barbarin drums. Not dated; our research indicates these pieces were recorded live in the 1960s; several band members were dead by the end of that decade. Cover design: Emerson E. Mangum & Richard Malanoski; Recording Engineer: Cosimo Matassa; Cover made by American Box & Tag Co. New Orleans; cover notes by Donald M. Marquis. Illustrated cover-sleeve; plain unprinted liner; some edge tips wear and soiling to cover; signatures clear and strong; very good and clear; disc not played by us to check for fidelity; in good condition. Signed By Performers. Record Album. Record Album . Good. Nobility Recording Company paperback books
501301See Description. Very Good AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC. MORRIS Edward and Betty Reynolds. Li'l Black Nigger. New York Morris Music 1924. 4to. Music and lyrics. Stiff pictorial wrappers with drawing by M. Power of a black child in bed surrounded by his dreams. 5 pages. Soft cover. See Description paperback books
1873WRCLIT84154Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard 1873. 221pp. Gilt brown cloth. Frontis and portraits. 1874 female ownership inscription on verso of front free endsheet extremities worn and sunned modest soiling slight damp mark to covers at top of spine slightly affecting text block at extreme upper gutter stain to sectional music title following leaf and few fore-edges but a good sound copy. First edition of this popular Seward beginning on p. 165. Among the most important of the several contemporary books on the Jubilee Singers and their tours. HORN 783. WORK p.436. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
1952WRCAM54641Detroit 1952. Broadside 14 x 11 inches. Minor dust-soiling rubbing and toning. Very good. A delightful pictorial broadside advertising a Methodist church concert in Detroit on September 12 1952. Photographs include portraits of the choir director Marvin Dupre; the narrator Rev. Poole; and twenty- seven members of the co-ed Dupre Victorian Choir ranged in a V-shape in two rows. The Scott Methodist Church was founded in 1909 and was the first African-American Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan. The church still exists today as the Scott Memorial United Methodist Church. unknown books
194132370New York: G. Schirmer 1941. Early printing. Paperback. Near fine in original printed wrappers. The score is signed: "Samuel Barber / March '78.". Quarto. 9 x 12" single sheet laid into a printed folio entitled Samuel Barber Four Songs for Voice and Piano as issued. The text of the song is taken from a lyric by Agee that was first published in his first book Permit Me Voyage 1934 two years before the publication of Barber's signature work Adagio for Strings. The author and composer became friends after Barber famously set Agee's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 to music in 1948. <br/><br/> G. Schirmer paperback books
19952614071995. unbound. 8.5 x 7.25-inch black-and-white photo of the country music band Alabama -- no place no date circa 1995. Signed with a black marker by the four members of the group: Randy Owen Jeff Cook Teddy Gentry and Mark Herndon. Matted in off-white and set in a black frame measuring 15 x 13.25 inches. The photo has two tiny faint stains at the top but is still in very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
19361317506Tuscaloosa: Weatherford Printing Company 1936. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black without print; Boards in black cloth with silver print slight warping wear to corners and spine caps mild bump to bottom edge; Text block has impress and stain from metal paperclip to front endpaper and initial pages mild peripheral tanning to endpapers else clean and tight; 312 pages illustrated b&w. 1317506. FP New Rockville Stock. Weatherford Printing Company hardcover books
1971WRCLIT84750Np: Maysles Films Inc 1971. 8 x 10" glossy b&w still with printed caption. Minute pinholes from mounting at extreme blank corners otherwise fine. A studio publicity still for the Maysles brother's documentary GIMME SHELTER capturing one of the critical moments when two members of the security detail made up of bikers from the San Jose Hell's Angels chapter raise pool cues over their heads as they bludgeon a troublesome spectator on the ground out of view while a third Angel looks on and the members of the surrounding audience react with curiosity amusement indifference or horror. Maysles Films, Inc unknown books
190517455Philadelphia: Press of Allen Lane & Scott 1905. 8pp two staples. Light dustsoiling light tanning. Good. Press of Allen, Lane & Scott unknown books
